Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 21:14     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing from a lot of parents in the MoCo area of students doing ED to Michigan, which is surprising to me but maybe not to others? Since this is the first year of ED it's hard to know what will happen, but if Michigan ends up taking a lot of high stats ED kids that will basically screw over the rest during EA/RD. Thoughts......?

ED obviously makes EA/RD harder, I think. As my kid said when she heard they were adding ED: “oh well.” Disappointing, but not disappointing enough to forego the opportunity to apply broadly. She applied EA.

I expect the student body will become somewhat richer and somewhat lower scoring. That’s the basic trade off of the ED process.


UVA has ED and they are doing just fine. Umich isn’t going to lower their standards.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 21:06     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:My friend has a child at Yorktown and they were told that there are 70+ kids who have ED'd to Michigan.


In Virginia,...... what?
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 21:06     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:Hearing from a lot of parents in the MoCo area of students doing ED to Michigan, which is surprising to me but maybe not to others? Since this is the first year of ED it's hard to know what will happen, but if Michigan ends up taking a lot of high stats ED kids that will basically screw over the rest during EA/RD. Thoughts......?


It doesn’t “screw them over,” because they could also have applied ED.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 21:04     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of the kids at my DC’s school applying ED to Michigan have stats that are slightly under what the “average” EA acceptance would have been at our school last year. They are hoping ED gives them a boost. The really top stats kids are not applying ED. One I know applying ED is even applying test optional—not a good idea out of state.

Also, PP is correct. Michigan totally favors legacy kids.


Michigan favors legacy kids, but I wonder if there will be as much of a difference now that ED is an option. Their OOS yield is pretty low and admitting legacies were a way to boost it (more likely to attend). Now OOS kids can clearly demonstrate strong interest.


At least at the top public in MoCo, the Bethesda magazine showed that Michigan had the highest yield out of all the public universities, 45%, higher than even UMCP, UVA, UNC, Berkeley, etc
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:55     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
“The really top stats kids are not applying ED.”

We will see
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:33     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My friend has a child at Yorktown and they were told that there are 70+ kids who have ED'd to Michigan.


ED'd?!?!?! Not EA + ED? Wow.


I'm the poster you're responding to and I was told ED but who knows.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:33     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:Hearing from a lot of parents in the MoCo area of students doing ED to Michigan, which is surprising to me but maybe not to others? Since this is the first year of ED it's hard to know what will happen, but if Michigan ends up taking a lot of high stats ED kids that will basically screw over the rest during EA/RD. Thoughts......?

ED obviously makes EA/RD harder, I think. As my kid said when she heard they were adding ED: “oh well.” Disappointing, but not disappointing enough to forego the opportunity to apply broadly. She applied EA.

I expect the student body will become somewhat richer and somewhat lower scoring. That’s the basic trade off of the ED process.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:31     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:My friend has a child at Yorktown and they were told that there are 70+ kids who have ED'd to Michigan.


ED'd?!?!?! Not EA + ED? Wow.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:25     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
My friend has a child at Yorktown and they were told that there are 70+ kids who have ED'd to Michigan.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:19     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:A lot of the kids at my DC’s school applying ED to Michigan have stats that are slightly under what the “average” EA acceptance would have been at our school last year. They are hoping ED gives them a boost. The really top stats kids are not applying ED. One I know applying ED is even applying test optional—not a good idea out of state.

Also, PP is correct. Michigan totally favors legacy kids.


Michigan favors legacy kids, but I wonder if there will be as much of a difference now that ED is an option. Their OOS yield is pretty low and admitting legacies were a way to boost it (more likely to attend). Now OOS kids can clearly demonstrate strong interest.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 20:15     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
A lot of the kids at my DC’s school applying ED to Michigan have stats that are slightly under what the “average” EA acceptance would have been at our school last year. They are hoping ED gives them a boost. The really top stats kids are not applying ED. One I know applying ED is even applying test optional—not a good idea out of state.

Also, PP is correct. Michigan totally favors legacy kids.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 19:28     Subject: Re:Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter. Michigan is pretty hard to get into anyway unless you are legacy, athlete or english major.


What? Not true.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 19:24     Subject: Re:Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter. Michigan is pretty hard to get into anyway unless you are legacy, athlete or english major.


This isn't true, they have tons of seats. Generally at each of the top high schools in MoCo they accept like 10 students.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 19:22     Subject: Re:Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Doesn't matter. Michigan is pretty hard to get into anyway unless you are legacy, athlete or english major.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2025 19:21     Subject: Michigan Early Decision - Any Early Anecdotes?
Hearing from a lot of parents in the MoCo area of students doing ED to Michigan, which is surprising to me but maybe not to others? Since this is the first year of ED it's hard to know what will happen, but if Michigan ends up taking a lot of high stats ED kids that will basically screw over the rest during EA/RD. Thoughts......?